THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER Get into the Christmas spirit with a bit of local carol singing. We need enthusiastic singers and musicians. At the end of the evening we will convene to have a drink and chat at a local pub. If very few are interested in doing this then the traditional evening will not go [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Carol Singers Wanted!
Posted in Local events and pictures on 17 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
Heathrow Aircraft Noise
Posted in Heathrow noise on 17 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You cannot help but be aware of the noise from aircraft arriving at Heathrow and City. Many of us would agree that it has got worse over the past few years. The number of arrivals seems to have increased and in particular the number of planes arriving before 6am. They now say that in excess [...]
Stockwell oral history
Posted in Community involvement, History on 15 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jason Cobb, a consistently interesting Stockwell blogger, has started a new oral history project for Stockwell, with its own site, Stockwell Stories. So far, there are two interviews available to listen to: Bill has lived in Stockwell for most of his life. He has worked locally for the Royal Mail, giving him a unique perspective [...]
Planning alerts
Posted in Planning and development on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eagle-eyed readers will note that the list of local planning applications which used to be in the right-hand column has disappeared. Our local planning alerts came from a service called PlanningAlerts.com, a small and simple site, run by volunteers, which simply took planning applications from the cumbersome systems run by local authorities and made them [...]
Street sale feedback
Posted in Community involvement, Local events and pictures on 4 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think everyone involved in the street sale on Saturday agreed that it was a great success. I’d like to quote one resident who I think put it far better than I could: “this neighbourhood event… was so much better than I expected: · Cleared out lots of our own stuff · Provided a site [...]


